Westwood, KS
Westwood wildfire risk explained
Westwood's 863 buildings earn a 29th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westwood at the 32nd percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Westwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 6.5% of Westwood's 863 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Westwood ranks
Westwood's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 8th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westwood ranks 22,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 662 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Westwood and the insurance market
Westwood's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Westwood's 93.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Westwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westwood's 22,497-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Westwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.